Balancing socio-economic and public health impact of COVID-19 for its sustainable control and mitigation (SOPHIA) KU Leuven
Given the uncertainty about the further development of the
COVID-19 pandemie, decision makers urgently need to balance the immediate public health impact of
the virus and the - yet uninvestigated - psychological and socio-economic impacts of the mitigation
measures that were imposed to safeguard our health care system. Just as the spread of COVID-19
itself, these effects are spatially heterogeneous and scale dependent, ...